Lots of changes lately.

It will be closed this week some time, probably Tuesday or Wednesday. 

If you would like to come for one last meal, you best do it soon. 

No matter how hard we try to escape this reality, human beings have an irresistible longing that is correlated to God. This is expressed not only in an innate desire to worship, but in the need to understand what life is about--how we are to live and what we are to live for. In short, what the meaning and purpose of life is and how we can be happy. We therefore raise questions about right and wrong. We find ourselves troubled and uneasy inside because of our behavior and that of others. Sometimes a strange guilt oppresses us, but we cannot easily identify the cause. We have a sense of ultimate accountability for our actions, even when we consider ourselves answerable to no one. These feelings can be summed up in the word conscience, a self-knowledge about good and bad, right and wrong, an internal policeman whom we either ignore or heed. The Bible teaches that God has put this "law" in the heart and that only through obedience to the voice of conscience can we begin to address the spiritual longings of the moral side of our nature.

Keeping these things we know about ourselves in mind, I would argue that we no more need proof of God than a baby needs proof that food is available or that a child needs proof of things to be known. The existence of God, a recognition of accountability, and a sense of moral duty are all assumed as readily as the other categories of appetite. We may seek to escape this or reason it away (and some people resent the implications), but it lingers still.

The truth is, if we trace the problems of our own existence, at every turn our Creator confronts us. The teaching of Jesus in the Bible tackles our struggle head-on. As surely as the stomach rumbles for food and the mind questions after truth, so the soul longs for God and for virtue. Our yearnings are our appetite for God. If we fail to recognize this, unhappiness and a sense of something missing will give way to overwhelming guilt, fear, despair, and moral confusion. These feelings either grow in intensity or disappear altogether, leaving us feeling empty, without any desire for God or moral truth, like a starving stomach unable to hold down food.

The Bible presents a feast for the soul for those who will partake of it. Jesus Christ is the only remedy for our condition. But how fitting and far-reaching is his response, "I am the bread of life. No one who comes to me will ever be hungry again. Those who believe in me will never thirst" (John 6:35).

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